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ferent choices,I will give you we are smart people,and certainly over the long run,we have the power to fill our lives with the things that deserve to be how do we do that?How do we treat our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater? Well,first we need to figure out what they want to give you two strategies for thinking about first,on the professional side:I39。m sure many people ing up to the end of the year are giving or getting annual performance look back over your successes over the year,your “opportunities for growth.”And this serves its purpose,but I find it39。s more effective to do this looking I want you to pretend it39。s the end of next 39。re giving yourself a performance review(績(jī)效評(píng)估),and it has been an absolutely amazing year for you next year39。s review:What 35 things would make it a great year for you you can write next year39。s performance review you can do this for your personal life,39。m sure many of you,like me,e December,get cards that contain these folded up sheets of colored paper,on which written what is known as the family holiday of a wretched genre of literature,really,going on about how amazing everyone in the household is,or even more scintillating,how busy everyone in the household these letters serve a purpose,which is that they tell your friends and family what you did in your personal life that mattered to you over the this year39。s kind of done,but I want you to pretend it39。s the end of next year,and it has been an absolutely amazing year for you and the people you care the family hollday letter:What three to five things did you do that made it so amazing?So you can write next year39。s family holiday letter 39。t send ,don39。t send you can write now,between the performance review and the family holiday letter,we have a list of six to ten goals we can work on in the next now we need to break these down into doable maybe you want to write a family ,you can read some other family histories,get a sense for the maybe think about the questions you want to ask your relatives,set up appointments to interview maybe you want to run a you need to find a race and sign up,figure out a training plan,and dig those shoes out of the back of the then...this is key...we treat our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater,by putting them into our schedules do this by thinking through our weeks before we are in them,I find a really good time to do this is Friday afternoon is what an economist might call a “l(fā)ow opportunity cost” of us are not sitting there on Friday afternoons saying,“I am excited to make progress toward my personal and professional priorities right now.”But we are willing to think about what those should take a little bit of time Friday afternoon,make yourself a threecategory priority list:career,relationships, a threecategory list reminds us that